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by dedup-com 10mo ago
I was able to see the video without age verification, go figure.
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by dedup-com 10mo ago
"Why shouldn't it" does not answer the question, which is "what made desktop computers (and servers, to a certain degree) a unique popular product that customers routinely build out of parts". I am not questioning r
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by dedup-com 10mo ago
I frankly don't understand why RAM for consumers is a thing. I don't know of any other popular consumer good that is routinely built by the consumer out of individual components. You buy cars, phones, refrigerators, amplifiers, et
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by dedup-com 11mo ago
It must be said that "cities", as used in this piece, is a rather generous term. Sedro-Woolley has 13K residents. Stanwood has 9K. They probably don't have enough people on payroll to handle FOA requests, hence "panic&qu
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by dedup-com 1y ago
I just realized that you might not know what a "bootcamper" is. Facebook's hiring process generally goes like this: - you're interviewed with a random team and evaluated if you'd be a good fit for the company. - you
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by dedup-com 1y ago
First of all, AR/VR is a tough problem space, often for reasons not immediately obvious to common folk. Second, Facebook in my opinion is a wrong home for long-term efforts that may not bear fruit for many years, with its 6-month atten
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by dedup-com 1y ago
There were many, many influential software projects done in the past that are not games. Some of the people responsible worked in AR/VR and drove its vision and technical roadmaps.
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by dedup-com 1y ago
Knowledge of C (XROS was written in C and during the interviews the candidate rather uncommonly wasn't given a choice of programming language) and general understanding of how a computer works at a low level. Knowing the purpose of &qu
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by dedup-com 1y ago
Yep, and the common mantra is that "ambitious" and "v1" shall never occur together in the same sentence.
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by dedup-com 1y ago
I believe the suboptimality concern was more about time to market and innovation velocity, and less about money. At the time FB felt a real sense of urgency given the anticipated AR/VR explosion (in a good sense) and presence of compet
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by dedup-com 1y ago
Just a small bunch of XROS people came from FB proper (mostly managers) because an average FB SWE has no required skills. Most folks were hired from the industry at E5/E6 and I think we had ever took one or two bootcampers that ultimat
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by dedup-com 1y ago
XROS had a completely new and rapidly evolving system call surface. No vendor would've been able to even start working on a driver for their device, let alone hand off a stable, complete result. It wasn't a case of "just rena
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by dedup-com 1y ago
Carmack absolutely 100% percent did not say "these people are incompetent". What he said boils down to "these people are world's best experts on writing operating systems and they'd love to write a new one from the
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by dedup-com 1y ago
There were quite a few of high-caliber individuals with equally impressive resumes in the organization to match Carmack's wisdom and ego.
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by dedup-com 1y ago
There were almost no kids on the XROS team. The bulk of the team were E6s with graying hairs, multiple kids, and very impressive history of work on other well-known operating systems -- and most of them wrote a lot of code. This was the sen